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lKatherine Jackson loses custody of Michael’s children after “deserting” them for ten days
l Katherine claims court hearing was “based on a bunch of lies” and she is “devastated” to lose custody
lMatriarch gives interview with Janet, Jermaine and Rebbie stood around her in bizarre show of family unity
l Katherine emotional as she explains she was told Prince had said “everything was going just fine.”
l Judge awarded TJ temporary guardianship of Prince, Paris and Blanket
l TJ claimed in court papers that he had already been involved in taking care of the children
l He will now have access to $500m estate to care for his cousins
l Katherine’s lawyer will file motion to reinstated her as guardian upon return
Katherine Jackson has broken her silence after “deserting” her grandchildren for ten days to claim she “wasn’t kidnapped” and “just needed a rest”.
Following days of escalating tensions among her feuding family Katherine was filmed by ABC news claiming: “There are rumours going around about me that I have been kidnapped . . . I am here today to let everybody to know that I am good and fine.
“My children would never do anything to me like that. It’s stupid.”
In a bizarre show of unity her children Jermaine, Janet and Rebbie stood close around the anxious 82-year-old as she read out a prepared statement at the luxury resort where she has been staying.Katherine seemed confused at times, calling grandson Prince “my nephew”.
Earlier the Jackson family matriarch had lost custody of her late son Michael’s three children after a judge awarded temporary guardianship of the trio to their cousin TJ.
Prince (15), Paris (14), and Blanket (10) will be cared for by their 34-year-old cousin who had been staying with them in their grandmother’s absence.
Katherine said: “I am devastated that while I’ve been away, my grandchildren have been taken away from me and I’m coming home.”
And she claimed the move was “based on a bunch of lies.”
But she failed to explain why she hadn’t notified her three wards of her intention to take a “short vacation and rest”.
“One reason I didn’t call is I just gave up my phone and I didn’t want to have any phone calls while I was here,”she said.
Katherine also confirmed that she had left her grandson TJ in charge.
Katherine also explained that her assistant had been in contact with her grandson Prince.
‘He said everything was going fine back home,” she said. ‘Still I think about the children . . . worry about them but they’re fine.’
She then confirmed reports that she had spoken to her grandchildren after ten days without contact.
“I told them I would come home today and they’re waiting for me to come,” she said.
Bizarrely she also repeatedly thanked the resort where she had been staying, adding: ‘I had a very good time here – and if anyone wants to rest I think they should come here.’
The latest feud between the Jacksons is said to have been stemmed from a dispute over Michael Jackson’s $500 million will.
Jackson died in June 2009 at age 50 and left his estate to care for his mother and three children. He left nothing to his father or siblings, who have repeatedly tried to intervene in the estate.
Following yesterday’s ruling TJ, the son of Michael’s brother Tito, will now get access to funds from the estate in order to care for the children, who are said to be in favour of him being their temporary guardian.
TJ became tearful in court as he told Judge Mitchell Beckloff how he had a strange phone conversation with Katherine.
“I’ve never heard my grandmother talk like that,” said TJ, who once dated Kim Kardashian.Saying he thought she was talking in code, he went on: “She wasn’t sharp. The pauses, choice of vocabulary . . . she has not used certain phrases like that before.”
Members of her house are said to have been “alarmed and nervous” after Katherine’s call with sources telling TMZ the “prevailing view is that Randy and company have drugged their mom”.Judge Beckloff said that his understanding was that TJ’s application was not a “power play”.
While members of the Jackson clan are feuding over Michael’s estate TJ is not one of them.
Earlier this week TJ’s father Tito withdrew from the plot — involving Randy, Janet, Jermaine and Rebbie — to overthrow the executors of their brother’s will, which leaves everything to his children and nothing to them.
Judge Beckloff said Katherine’s guardianship was not suspended for wrongdoing but argued she has been prevented from doing her duties by “intentional acts from third parties” — an apparent reference to Randy, Janet, Jermaine and Rebbie.
TJ’s attorney, Charles A. Schultz described the situation as dire.
He said: “There’s immediate harm to the minor children, there was a potential abduction at the house, in addition to a phone call from Katherine last night that gave us real concern.”
Schultz went on: “We are looking at this as a Band-Aid until Miss Jackson returns or re-establishes contact with the kids.”
One of Katherine’s lawyers, Sandra Ribera, added: “I have reason to believe she’s being held against her will.” — Daily Mail.
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